CicLAvia – Heart of the Foothills – Open Thread
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How was your experience at yesterday's CicLAvia - Heart of the Foothills?
Advocacy Group Fights to Put the Transit Customer First
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Group commits to fighting inter-agency politics, arduous transfers, and irrational fare structures
Today’s Headlines
|- America before Earth Day: What a mess (NY Times)
- For Earth Day, Trump ended ability of parks to ban sales of water in plastic bottles (EcoNews)
- SANDAG holds public workshops on transportation plans (Patch)
- Third lane opens on Richmond San Rafael Bridge during commute hours (Marin Independent Journal)
- Big rig hits message sign on highway 99 near Galt, spills boulders (Sacramento Bee)
- Bill allowing BART to build housing near its stations moves forward (MPA)
- APA digs in to oppose it–because local control (Planetizen)
- Political intrigue, the BOE’s redistricting, and the gas tax (Capitol Weekly)
- Federal court overturns delay on fines for not meeting auto efficiency standards (Electrek)
- Federal regulation on autonomous vehicles might be “petering out” after crashes (Jalopnik)
- What’s behind falling transit ridership (Ethan Elkind)
- CA legislative leaders are not really committed to transparency on harassment claims (LA Times)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
Transit Ridership Slumping? Not in Canada.
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It's not complicated: Canadian cities run better, more abundant transit service than American cities.
SGV Connect 18 – Welcome Kris Fortin
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SGV Connect's new co-host has deep roots with Streetsblog and the San Gabriel Valley
Today’s Headlines
|- Steve Lopez explores L.A.’s “other” [sic] bike culture (LA Times)
- Causes, consequences of transit fragmentation in the Bay Area (Global Transit Innovations)
- Watsonville pedestrian seriously injured, so police to cite bicyclists and pedestrians—not drivers? (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
- Bill would help BART build housing (Bay City Beacon)
- Moving forward after housing bill spiked (Ethan Elkind)
- Oil, soda companies pouring money into initiative to make it harder to raise taxes (Sacramento Bee)
- Bay Area Air Quality Management District to host workshops on Community Health Protection Program in Vallejo, Fairfield (Daily Republic)
- Parents didn’t want fracking near their kids’ school, so oil company moved it near a low-income school (Mother Jones)
- VW promises autonomous parking by 2020 (Automotive IT)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
Move L.A. and Partners Float Vision2020 Electrification Sales Tax Proposal
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Vision 2020 proposes a four-county sales tax to end air pollution and abate climate change
Lansing Is Your 2018 Parking Madness Champion!
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Only one city (per year) can emerge victorious from the Parking Madness bracket and win the Golden Crater™. Our readers have spoken, and this year that city is Lansing, Michigan.
A Sea-Bus Future for the Bay Area?
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"You're going to need a bigger boat," goes the famous line from Jaws. But maybe when it comes to transportation, the opposite is true.
“I Can’t Be Quiet About This.” How a Grieving Mother Found Her Voice.
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Since losing her son Dustin to a drunk driver, Kristi Finney has become one of the Portland region's most energetic and compelling advocates for traffic safety reforms.
Today’s Headlines
|- Hemet police focus enforcement on pedestrians, “jaywalkers,” not speeders (Press Enterprise)
- Significantly “more dense” development planned for San Jose Berryessa “transit village” (Mercury News) includes a sea of parking (Systemic Failure)
- Cities struggle with what to do about bike-share (Bicycle Retailer)
- More on housing bill that died in committee (Daily Cal, Daily Journal)
- New bill would allow BART to build housing at its stations (Curbed)
- Redding highway plagued by fatalities, speeders—but it’s not so easy just to lower speed limit (Record Searchlight)
- LA looks to fast-track Musk’s car tunnels (LA Times)
- Solar farm opens on former Chevron landfill in Richmond (East Bay Times)
- Throw anything at it: USEPA says CA fuel rules will make cars unsafe (LA Times)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF